How many copies did NGU INDUSTRIES sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did NGU INDUSTRIES make?

NGU INDUSTRIES is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is NGU INDUSTRIES?

Estimated owners: ≈ 39k–63k; from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left NGU INDUSTRIES out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NGU INDUSTRIES's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–58k

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like NGU INDUSTRIES

The middle of these games

≈ 36k–58k copies

≈ $32k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 482 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 90 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (8 of 8) and Clicker (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Horror + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Wild West Saga: Idle Tycoon Clicker 2018	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	787 reviews Mixed	ClickerIdler
Touch Some Grass 2022	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before the cut	$1.99	1k reviews Very Positive	CasualMemes
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Cookie Clicker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 60x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$13.1M before the cut	$4.99	93k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ClickerIdler
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